Grown-Ups Get to Do All the Driving

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Summary: You've Got to Laugh at Yourself.
Review: Grown-ups take themeselves too seriously. It's nice when you discover a book like this which forces you to laugh at yourself and your friends as you see yourselves in the pictures. This book is written like a children's book and kids enjoy reading it (they find many of the pictures funny), but it's probably adults who will find the book most funny and enjoy it the most.

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Summary: hilarious illustrations, albeit a cynical view
Review: I'm not sure I'm comfortable with this being a children's book that a child would read by themselves - makes adults look like old, tired fuddy-duddies that have zero fun. Obviously, we come off that way to young kids and this book reinforces all the negatives and there are really no positives. This is a fun book for story time with your child, however - to laugh with them and to ask them what their perceptions are, etc. In every illustration, the child is either bored, annoyed, angry or disgusted with the bafoon adults who get to control everything. As an adult, I got a kick out of this page-turner - reminds you of how you thought of the adults in your life when you were a child and how we all end up growing up to be just what we used to loathe - tired, grumpy, controlling know-it-alls without patience.